State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
Subtitle: To the freemen of the state aforesaid. Elisha R. Potter, Esq; the first representative of this state in the Fifth Congress of the United States ... declared his resignation ... I do therefore ... require you, at your respective town-meetings ... to elect a suitable person, legally qualified, to sit as the first representative of this state ... Given under my hand, at Providence, this twenty-fourth day of July, A.D. 1797 ..
Contributors: Fenner, Arthur, 1745-1805
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 32759
Publisher: Printed by Carter and Wilkinson
Published: 1797
Place of publication: [Providence
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Potter, Elisha Reynolds, -- 1764-1835; United States. -- Congress. -- House -- Elections; Elections -- Rhode Island
Notes: Directive from Governor Fenner to elect a replacement for the resigning representative, Elisha Potter

Imprint supplied by Alden

Evans 32759

Alden, J.E.  Rhode Island, 1538

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 32759)